GNU/GPL V3 license in bundles and Equinoxhttps://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/469874/1033806/#msg_1033806
I am developing several bundles that can be executed in any OSGi container for stuff [1]. I would like to set GNU/GPL V3 to my source code (available here [2]). My question is: can I distribute my set of bundles plus the necessary Equinox bundles (in a .zip) as a complete application (that is, my bundles and the org.eclipse.equinox, ds, configuration manager... bundles) or is there any incompatibility with the licenses?

Apparently the Eclipse Licence and GPL/V3 does not allow to mix their code. However, in my case, no code is mixed (that is, I do not use org.eclipse.* packages in my code, for example). My bundles are independent of the OSGi environment (can also be executed in Apache Felix).

In [3] the FSF says that with Eclipse Plug-ins the licenses are incompatible, but we are talking now about OSGi bundles, where code is not mixed (Equinox includes bundles with Apache License, for example).

So, can I distribute a .zip with my bundles (GPLV3) together with a set of Equinox bundles?

Thanks!

[1] http://www.osgiliath.org
[2] http://osgiliath.svn.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/using-the-gpl-for-eclipse-plug-ins
]]>Pablo Mising name2013-04-04T17:04:11-00:00Re: GNU/GPL V3 license in bundles and Equinoxhttps://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/469874/1033877/#msg_1033877
BJ Hargrave2013-04-04T18:52:54-00:00Re: GNU/GPL V3 license in bundles and Equinoxhttps://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/469874/1034321/#msg_1034321
Pablo Mising name2013-04-05T09:43:48-00:00Re: GNU/GPL V3 license in bundles and Equinoxhttps://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/469874/1034352/#msg_1034352
license you'd like. However you're not allowed the change license of the
other bundle.
So you need to make it clear in the global license of your software that
you have some EPL bundles, and you'll need to tweak the GPL and set up a
license exception to allow usage of EPL code from you GPL
You can read more here: http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/epl-gpl-commentary/